12th position??!@?

[Bill Long <LONGWJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I was screwing around with my D harp the other day while driving, playing 
along with the radio.  Anyways, since I only had this one harp on me at the 
time I was just trying to play along with whatever key happened to come up. 
During one song I noticed I was playing some good sounding stuff but in a 
position I wasn't all that familiar with.  After some checking I figured 
out that I was playing in the key of G on a D harp.  Using our convention 
of naming positions on the harp using the "circle of fifths" I guess you 
would call this 12th position.  Anyway, it worked out well, except that the 
fourth step of the scale was raised a half step (Lydian mode don't ya know),
but I was able to avoid this note when it didn't fit (sometimes it did fit, 
like when doing a cadence which resoved to V of the key, or for this 
example when the chords went to D).

Anybody out there actually use this postion on a regular basis?  What songs, 
or types of songs does it work on?  The fourth note of this G scale on a D 
harp falls on the draw7 so it's nearly impossible to get the note flat by 
bending (draw6 is only a half step down from there in pitch)...or is it?  
TIA for any info or anecdotes you can share with me concerning this weird 
position.

Bill Long >-- StarGazer